Blankeberge – The bankrupt nv Sculpta, who builds the yearly sand sculpture festival, has a debt of 740.589 euro. It on the curator who treats the bankruptcy to examine if the creditors will see their money.

Five years ago the city signed a contract with the nv Sculpta for the construction of a Sand Sculpture Festival. The first three years, the festival was a public attraction and the communicated the organisers that the attracted about 300.000 visitors a year. The last two years the visitors numbers went down the hill. The bad weather conditions and the déjà vu feeling where two of the important reasons. How many people visited the festival is for now hard to find out. There is even talk of fake tickets, but organiser Jaap Cast, who currently is abroad, denies this.